[VPM] CGI questions, and O'Reilly

[Peter Scott]

At 05:40 PM 5/15/2003 -0700, Nathanael Kuipers wrote:
>  I'm also getting
>infuriating warnings from Perl as follows:
>
>
>[Thu May 15 17:54:23 2003] test.cgi: Use of uninitialized value in length at
>(eval 8) line 11.
>[Thu May 15 17:54:23 2003] test.cgi: Use of uninitialized value in join or
>string at (eval 15) line 15.
>[Thu May 15 17:54:23 2003] test.cgi: Use of uninitialized value in join or
>string at (eval 15) line 15.
>
>I'm not sure what these mean, or if I should worry about them since they 
>don't
>hinder in any way the generation of my form page.  Question 2: What is the
>concencus on this?

I am consensed that all warnings should be eliminated.  If you're not 
generating undef values deliberately then you should look at why they are 
happening.

I don't get any warnings from running your attached test.cgi.  Those 
messages really came from the same script? You may have a broken CGI.pm.
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